The Mr. Brown Network

Amazon.com’s Kindle is an amazing little device, which I would want in a heartbeat… but for a few problems.

I think the biggest problem for me, personally, is that law casebooks aren’t available in Kindle format. I would kill not to be able to have to carry around hundreds of pounds of books at any one time – one thin electronic device to replace them all. But unfortuantely (no fault of Amazon’s), the publishers of such books have their own plans, and want to continue to waste paper and energy pumping out overpriced books, year after year, when the law doesn’t really change.

Additionally, as a law student, I do a lot of writing in the casebooks that I read. The Kindle has no sort of “notetaking” feature, as far as I know.

I love the idea of books on demand and free 3G access to download those books – that’s just plain awesome… but these two things are really deal breakers for me at the moment.

(yeah, I’m totally trying to sell you the Kindle, since Amazon Associates is offering 10% commission on them right now!)